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Windows Azure VM Role - Handling Error : The sector size of the physical disk on which the virtual disk resides is not supported

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Once you have
VM role enabled with your subscription, you can start working on VM Role using
the step by step guide provided as below:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/WAZPlatformTrainingCourse_VMRoleLab

 

 

After finished creating your VHD for VMRole, and uploading using
CSUPLOAD script, you may following error:

 

Error: An error occurred trying to attach
to the VHD.

Details: The sector size of the physical disk on which the
virtual disk resides is not supported.

Note: This is your main error and other errors after it are just caused by this error so please do not give any consideration to them.

Reason: This error occurred because I was loading
the baseimage.VHD (as described in above csupload script)from external USB 3.0,
1.0 TB disk.

             If I use other smaller size external
HDD this error did not produced. So the error could occur with certain HDD
which have incompatible sector size.

             So far I do not have a list of compatible
sector size disk needed for successful upload.

 

Solution:

After I moved baseimage.vhd to my local hard disk , I could
upload is successfully.

To solve your problem, please copy the VHD to your local disk
and then reference it properly in “-LiteralPath” parameter.